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The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.

The last thing we discover in composing a work is what to put down first.
– Blaise Pascal

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  3. All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone. – Blaise Pascal
  4. There is a certain standard of grace and beauty which consists in a certain relation between our nature… and the thing which pleases us. – Blaise Pascal
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  6. I would prefer an intelligent hell to a stupid paradise. – Blaise Pascal
  7. Lust is the source of all our actions, and humanity. – Blaise Pascal
  8. Nature has made all her truths independent of one another. Our art makes one dependent on the other. – Blaise Pascal
  9. Those honor nature well, who teach that she can speak on everything. – Blaise Pascal
  10. Our intellect holds the same position in the world of thought as our body occupies in the expanse of nature. – Blaise Pascal
  11. If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future. – Blaise Pascal
  12. God instituted prayer to communicate to creatures the dignity of causality. – Blaise Pascal
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  14. Kind words produce their images on men’s souls. – Blaise Pascal
  15. Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them. – Blaise Pascal
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  17. Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. – Blaise Pascal
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  25. Eloquence.-” We need both what is pleasing and what is real, but that which pleases must itself be drawn from the true. – Blaise Pascal
  26. The song we’re composing already exists in potential. Our work is to find it. – Steven Pressfield
  27. Renounce poor work.Shun trivial work.Entertain respectable work.Welcome superior work.Honor transcendent work. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  28. I am in the world only for the purpose of composing. – Franz Schubert
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  30. Writers do not have the privilege of sleep. There is always a story coming alive in their heads, constantly composing. Whether they choose it or not. – Coco J Ginger
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  36. Discover yourself, discover what God has called you for, and find your place in life, so that you can fulfill God’s purpose for your life – Sunday Adelaja
  37. It is through living that we discover ourselves, at the same time as we discover the world around us. – Henri CartierBresson
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  39. When you discover the difference between consciousness and the brain, you will discover yourself. – Jenna Alatari
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